Passport amendment due to a change of address

Only your place of residence, not your exact address, is entered in your passport. The place of residence stated in your passport only needs to be updated if your place of residence within the country changes.

You can have the address entry in your passport amended, either in person or through a person authorised in writing, at the relevant authority in your new place of residence.

If you are moving abroad and have a new place of residence there, you can register your address abroad. If your address abroad has not yet been finalised, you can register your current address.

• Section 15(1) of the Passport Act (Passport Act – PassG)
• Section 19(3) of the Passport Act (Passport Act – PassG)
• Section 23a of the Federal Registration Act (Bundesmeldegesetz – BMG)
• Section 1(2) of the Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance – PassV)
• Section 15 of the Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance – PassV)
• Appendix 1b: Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Regulation – PassV)
• Annex 1c: Regulations for the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Regulations – PassV)
• Appendix 11, Table 4: Ordinance implementing the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance – PassV)
• Section 21(2)(21.2.8) of the General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation – PassVwV)

• valid passport
• A current official confirmation of registration;
  . For documents to be provided abroad, please contact the relevant German diplomatic mission.
• in the event of a deputy:
  • Power of attorney

• You hold a valid passport.
• Your place of residence has changed.
• Please bring your passport with you to the local authority office when you go to change your registered address.

• Section 15 of the Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance – PassV)

If your place of residence within the country changes:

• Please register with your local registration office.
• You may authorise another person in writing to have your change of address entered in your passport by the relevant domestic registration authority.
• You can have your passport updated at the same time as you change your registered address within Germany. To do so, please present your valid passport when you change your registered address.
• The registration authority will affix an official residence sticker showing your new place of residence to a blank space in data field 11 or on the page for official notes in your passport.

If your place of residence abroad changes:

• You can register with the German diplomatic mission responsible for your new place of residence abroad, for example an embassy or a consulate.
• There is no obligation to register with a German diplomatic mission abroad.

• Contradiction
• Action for annulment
• Action for performance

• Information on German passports on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland Affairs (BMI)
• Frequently asked questions and answers about passports on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland Affairs (BMI)

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• Passport amendment due to a change of address in Brandenburg

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